Local Want Ads Span Services and Goods in Pendleton
A整理 of local wants and offerings includes Mark Patton sanitary barber and United Orchestra ads, Oregon Lumber Yard sawdust for sale, autos for hire, a nearly new Spaulding for 76, and a variety of household items, piano sale, and lodging notices. Also listings for sewing, cooking help, and shipping of sewer pipe, with multiple contact numbers and addresses around Pendleton.
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Mark Patton
United Orchestra
Snyder
Oregon
Oregon Lumber Yard
Nissen
Sharon & Woldings
Sharon & Eddings
Pendleton
Hobart M. Cable
Eldora Music House
Main Street
Ators
Back to Nature With a Vengeance in Eugene
Report from Eugene notes a group of prominent women spending the summer at a secluded camp practicing barefoot living. They have abandoned shoes and stockings, with one bringing sand in a sock to cover the camp floor to toughen their feet. They claim health benefits and plan to keep feet free from coins and bunions for a year.
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Eugene
Indies
E Eugene Register
A Question of Comfort from a Humorous Patient
A humorous quoted exchange from Success Magazine where a patient complains to a doctor about his troublesome "elephants-pink" troubles. The patient clarifies he loves elephants but wishes they did not crowd him.
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Success Magazine
Pendleton Visitors and Local Business Tourists
A long list of residents and visitors arrive in Pendleton for business and personal reasons. Names include Frank Martin from Adams, Sam Aixley of Helix, M C Norman of Echo, Co B Pickens of La Grande, Sam L Neail of Nyssa, Joe Basler from Portland, William Cusick of Union, Miss Helen Raymond, and many others. The notes also mention officials like City Recorder F C McKenzie, Deputy Sheriff Joe Blakley, and O R N officials. The final paragraph discusses coal land prospects in the Behring river and Matanauska fields with estimated yields and values, suggesting potential acre tonnage and worth from 50 to 900 dollars per acre.
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Frank Martin
Adams
Pendleton
Sam Aixley
Helix
M. C. Norman
Echo
B. Pickens
la Grande
Sam L. Neail
Nyssa
Oregon
Joe Basler
Portland
William C. Cusick
Union
Ing
Idaho
Frank Griggs
Gritman Brothers Cigar Store
Pasco
Jesale Folsom
Kennewick
Washington
Elizabeth Sawtelle
Joe Blakley
Kamela
Lydia Albough
Pilot Rock
L. B. Wells
Joe Sheard
Athena
Robert Stanfield
Stanfield
Ll. B. Reeder
Wayne Maloney
A. C. Crawford
Hermiston
Oliver Knotts
Upper Birch Creek
A. K. Wilkins
Northern Pacific
Misa
Paralee Halley
H. H. McReynolds
Elsie McReynolds
Behring River
Matanuska
United States
Alaska Coal Worth Half Cent
Alfred H. Brooks of the Geological Survey presents a low estimate of coal value in the Alaska field. He argues that coal in the ground is merely raw material and that multiple profits occur before sale, estimating accessible Bering and Matanuska coal at about half a cent a ton in the ground, far above many eastern coal lands.
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Alfred H. Brooks
Geological Survey
Alaska
Brooks
Bering
Matanuska
State Superintendent Warns of Rising School Indebtedness
Olympia, Wash. State Superintendent Henry B. Dewey warns county superintendents about alarming growth in school district indebtedness. He cites per child debt rising from 3.54 in 1890 to 23.86 in 1909 and urges sinking funds, reduced interest, and careful reporting of outstanding warrants and incidental expenses to curb waste.
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Olympia
Wash
Henry B. Dewey
Dewey
Dredging for Half Billion on Seward Peninsula
Alaska’s Seward Peninsula hosts extensive nonconcentrated gravel gold deposits with estimates ranging from 250 to 500 million dollars. New dredges planned this year aim to mine the abundant gravels profitably, as about 55 million has already been mined mostly from concentrated placers.
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Seward Peninsula
Alaska
Alaska-Yukon Magazine
Night Riders Raid Woman in Kentucky Home
Report from Glasgow Kentucky details night riders visiting Mrs. Mary Buchanan’s home in Green county. They demolished a mill, damaged belts and pumps, then assaulted the house breaking doors and windows. Mrs. Buchanan and her young son fired at intruders to scare them away.
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Glasgow
Mary Buchanan
Gresham
Green County
Also Mentioned on This Page
Coats
Ladies Coats
Misses Coats
Childrens Coats
F. E. Livengood & Co
the Ladies’ and Children’s Store
P. O
Southern Cafe
Alta Street
L. K. Blakeslee
Union County
J. H. Koontz
Fulper
Koeppen
Helen Raymond
City Recorder F. C
Bert Wilson
Cayuse Station
Joe Parkes
Phyllis Parkes
Parkes
Meacham
I. T. Mayo
Lester Hamiley
Earl Coutts
George Gilson
Umatilla
M. L. Morris
Frank Albee
Alex Manning
Child
Lehman Springs
J. F. Colve
Alberta
A. D. Rothrock
Walla Walla
Garden City
N. A. Miller
East Oregonian
The
Dan Kemler
W. Bloff
Pendleton, Oregon
Wohlenberg
Oregon State Fair
Salem
Frank Meredith
California State
Sacramento
Taylor Hardware Co
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